Item #165115 BRIEF LIVES and other selected writings. John Aubrey, Anthony Powell.
BRIEF LIVES and other selected writings.

BRIEF LIVES and other selected writings.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by Anthony Powell. Pp. xxvi+410, notes, index; cr. 8vo; dark blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges rubbed and chipped; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Cresset Press, London, 1949. First edition thus. The Cresset Library series. Lilley B.5. *With an inked presentation inscription in mock 'antiquarian' style on the upper free endpaper from Powell to John Davies Knatchbull Lloyd: 'For the ingenious Mr. John Lloyd, ffelowe of ye Societie of Antiquaries, from his ffreide Anthy Powell. Trin. 9 Eliz. II'. John Lloyd, whose armorial bookplate is on the upper pastedown, was a public servant and antiquarian researcher. At Trinity College, Oxford, he founded the Hypocrites' Club. Members included fellow students Harold Acton, Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, and Anthony Powell. A brief annotation on the lower pastedown, and a note on a small slip loosely inserted in this copy (along with 2 newscutting portraits of Powell) are perhaps in Lloyd's hand. Most recently from the library of David Levine, Sydney, whose book label is on the upper free endpaper verso. Item #165115

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